Sam, who according to the video description is not a professional stormchaser and had never seen a tornado before, managed to get the incredibly close encounter—perhaps a couple of hundred feet away—with the twister on cell phone video.

The tornado, which killed two people in the town of Fairdale, Illinois, and left homes and buildings across the area flattened, was given a preliminary rating of EF-4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with winds of up to 200 mph.

NOTE: This man is extremely lucky to have survived. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!